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THE BOOK OF<br/>
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CHAPTER 13
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Job testifies of his confidence in the Lord, and says: Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him; and, He also shall be my salvation.
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Lo,</span> mine eye hath seen all <i>this,</i> mine ear hath heard and understood it.
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What ye know, <i>the same</i> do I know also: I <i>am</i> not inferior unto you.
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Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
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But ye <i>are</i> forgers of lies, ye <i>are</i> all <sup>a</sup><a href="job/13/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Job 16: 2; D&C 121: 10 (7-11).">physicians</a> of no value.
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O that ye would altogether <sup>a</sup><a href="job/13/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Prov. 17: 28.">hold</a> your peace!  and it should be your wisdom.
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Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
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Will ye speak wickedly for God?  and talk deceitfully for him?
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Will ye accept his person?  will ye contend for God?
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Is it good that he should search you out?  or as one man mocketh another, do ye <i>so</i> mock him?
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He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
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Shall not his excellency make you afraid?  and his dread fall upon you?
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Your remembrances <i>are</i> like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
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Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what <i>will.</i>
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Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
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Though he <sup>a</sup><a href="job/13/15a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Adversity.">slay</a> me, yet will I <sup>b</sup><a href="job/13/15b" mark="b" type="C" title="D&C 42: 46; TG Faith; TG Trust in God.">trust</a> in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
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He also <i>shall be</i> my salvation: for an <sup>a</sup><a href="job/13/16a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Hypocrisy.">hypocrite</a> shall not come before him.
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Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
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Behold now, I have ordered <i>my</i> cause; I know that I shall be <sup>a</sup><a href="job/13/18a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Justification.">justified</a>.
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Who <i>is</i> he <i>that</i> will <sup>a</sup><a href="job/13/19a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB contend.">plead</a> with me?  for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
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Only do not two <i>things</i> unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.
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Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
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Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
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How many <i>are</i> mine iniquities and sins?  make me to <sup>a</sup><a href="job/13/23a" mark="a" type="A" title="Alma 36: 17 (12-19); D&C 18: 44.">know</a> my transgression and my sin.
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Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
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Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro?  and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
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For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the <sup>a</sup><a href="job/13/26a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 17: 18; Ps. 25: 7; D&C 58: 42.">iniquities</a> of my youth.
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Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
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And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
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